One more event!. Yesterday we delivered a nice workshop regarding Model Driven Development and “OSLO”. I talked most about MDD/MDE (Model Driven Development/Engineering), Model Drive SOA, how can be the future regarding MDD implemented with “OSLO”. Key points, risks, and long term goals and then how could everything be mapped to “OSLO”...

It’s been just released a few days ago to Codeplex: WCF Load Test. It looks pretty nice! :-) Project Description This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variat...

Architects Forum XXIII - Visual Studio Team System 2010 & Tools for Software Architects Here I post some info & Presentations about the Forums we just delivered in Madrid (May 28th) & Barcelona (June 16th): http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Arch.Forum%20-%20...

Dinesh Kulkarni has written a nice post about RIA Services (Alexandria) roadmap: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/101160/230835.aspx#230835 So, RIA Services milestones are: - July 2009 CTP  - PDC 2009 Beta (November)  - First part of 2010: RTW (Like .NET 4.0) Another key point is that we might provide support for .NET 3.5 SP1 in the s...

Today, we just run a Workshop regarding Biztalk Server 2009 news, ESB 2.0 Guidance & WCF LOB SDK. I post the presentations here, so any attendee can get it. You can grab it from the following SKYDRIVE: http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Biztalk%202009%20-%20ESB%202.0%...

Cool!, So we have just released a public Visual Studio 2010 Beta1  and, of course, VSTS 2010 and Team Foundation Server (Beta1), as well. MSDN subscribers can actually download it today from MSDN site, but you can also install it from this public URL:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=85520793-68fc-4361-a8b6-dc2cff49c8d2&a...

AzMan background AzMan (Authorization Manager) is the best Microsoft technology to implement role & permissions based security for your applications. It exists as part of Windows Server (and Windows "workstation"), since versions Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. If you want to take a look of its management tool, just run it: "Start azman....

It turns out that adding a Loopback adapter in Windows 7 is a little bit tricky, because we have no "Add Hardware" menu icon within Control Panel, anymore. Everything is supposed to be detected by Windows 7. (At least in current Windows 7 RC1). But if we're talking about a "Loopback Netwrok Adapter", it really cannot be detected, as it is a virtual...

“MUrl” is a textual DSL and runtime for interacting with REST/HTTP services. It is actually just a great Oslo-DSL sample, as you can download it (all its source code) from MSDN.com: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/B/40B632EC-F201-43EE-8E29-C398A9DA8468/MUrlSample.msi As long as I know, “MUrl” has been mainly developed by Douglas Pur...

I wrote a post about Oslo and “M” Language and how you can use it to model data. But in that case, we were not using our own custom Textual DSL, we were using just “M” Language. You can see that post here: Starting using OSLO, “M” Language, Oslo Repository and Intellipad http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/04/20/starting-using-oslo-...